Hajime Moriyasu
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Hajime Moriyasu | ||
| Date of birth | August 23, 1968 | ||
| Place of birth | Kakegawa, Shizuoka, Japan | ||
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1987–2001 | Sanfrecce Hiroshima | 271 | (34) |
| 1998 | → Kyoto Purple Sanga (loan) | 32 | (1) |
| 2002–2003 | Vegalta Sendai | 45 | (0) |
| Total | 348 | (35) | |
| National team | |||
| 1992–1996 | Japan | 35 | (1) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2012– | Sanfrecce Hiroshima | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Hajime Moriyasu (森保 一 Moriyasu Hajime?, born August 23, 1968) is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team. He was a defensive midfielder. He is now manager of J1 League club Sanfrecce Hiroshima. His son is Shohei Moriyasu.
Moriyasu's son, Keigo Moriyasu, currently plays as a striker for Edgeworth FC in the National Premier Leagues Northern NSW.
Moriyasu was educated at and played for Nagasaki Nihon Daigaku Gakuen High School. After finishing his school, he joined Japan Soccer League side Mazda in 1987. New manager Hans Ooft rated him highly and established him as an anchoring midfielder of the team. In April 1990, Moriyasu had a trial at Manchester United. When Japan's first ever professional league J1 League started in 1993, Mazda was transformed to Sanfrecce Hiroshima for whom he continued to play. Together with Yahiro Kazama, he controlled Hiroshima's midfield and contributed to the club winning the second stage of the 1994 J1 League season.
In 1998, Ooft became the manager of Kyoto Purple Sanga and recruited Moriyasu on a loan deal. The deal was initially meant to be a permanent one but infuriated Hiroshima supporters collected signatures against the deal, which forced the clubs to settle for a loan. He was the linchpin of Kyoto for the 1998 season.
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